Nokia Files Patent for Kinetically Charged Cell Phone | Inhabitat
Telecom giant Nokia recently filed a patent for a cell phone powered by kinetic energy (one of our favorite kinds of energy here at Inhabitat!). The conceived phone would charge via built-in piezoelectric generators that will convert ...

Jonathan Schwartz: How to play patent games with Steve Jobs, Bill ...
Former Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz chimed in on patent lawsuits, threats from the likes of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and how to manage a st.

Intellectual Property Watch » Blog Archive » Leading IP Offices ...
The traditional response to a backlog is to hire more patent examiners, “but this is not working,” said David Lammy, UK minister of state for higher education and intellectual property. Much of the backlog has been caused by the ...

Analyzing Patent Reform Chances and the First to File Provisions ...
If health care dies I predict patent reform passes. If health care passes I predict patent reform will die, as the Congress and government slip into heightened posturing in advance of the 2010 elections.

Apple patent: use your iPhone as an electronic "iKey"
The Daily Telegraph reports that a new Apple patent has surfaced which could potentially allow the iPhone, or another Apple portable, to act as a sort of electronic key. The potential applications are as limitless as the number of ...

Apple's patent lawsuit might change smartphone pecking order
Apple patent lawsuit against HTC has Android handset manufacturers running for the hills- hiring legal teams, revising OS strategies, sending hardware back to engineering, and changing development roadmaps, according to CNN's Fortune.

Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal « What I Couldn't Say…
Egregious, because Kodak had acquired a patent from a defunct computer maker (Wang) for the exclusive purpose of suing Sun over an esoteric technology, Java Remote Method Invocation (“Java RMI” – not exactly the first thing that comes ...

Quoted: Playing patent poker with Steve Jobs | Good Morning ...
3 Responses to “Quoted: Playing patent poker with Steve Jobs”. Jerry Montgomery says: March 10th, 2010 at 11:24 am. This rocks!!!! I love it. dale thorn says: March 10th, 2010 at 12:18 pm. I was at Olympic Sales in 1981 to 1983 when HP ...

Nokia Moving Into Kinetically Charged Cell Phones, Files New ...
Photo via jurvetson digg_url = 'http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/03/nokia-moving-into-kinetically-charged-cell-phones-files-new-patent.php'; So far, kinetic charging for cell phones has been confined to the realm of external ...

IntelliNet gets patent for mobile data offload
IntelliNet Technologies, today announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office has awarded the company a critical technology patent for mobile data offload.

Nokia files patent for kinetically-charging mobile phone battery
Question: can you file a patent for something that's existed for a long time? I guess the question is of implementation. While self-winding ...

Amazon wins on convenience – 1-click patent confirmed « Kindle ...
Amazon just got a big win as its 1-click patent has been confirmed by the US Patent and Trademark Office after a 4 year re-examination. It's a pretty big deal as it means that any company that wants to add convenient 1-click purchases ...

What the "Patent Apocalypse" Really Mean for Big Pharma & Global ...
In 2012, the planet faces what the sensationalist press has dubbed a “Patent Cliff”, though a “patent trough” is much closer to the mark of veracity. Because the issue, when one takes a deep enough look at it, is more one of major ...

What the "Patent Apocalypse" Really Mean for Big Pharma & Global ...
The latest victim of the best mode was a foreign patent applicant in Ajinomoto v. ITC. Ajinomoto argued that omissions didn't relate to the innovative aspects of the claimed invention. The CAFC disagreed.